Mother’s Day Tribute to Teena Marie at Boardwalk Hall
Charlie Wilson
Atlantic City’s third annual Mother’s Day Music Festival at historic Boardwalk Hall will hold special reverential significance this year.
Slated for Saturday, May 7, starting 7:30pm, the event will serve a tribute to Teena Marie, the Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and producer who passed away unexpectedly December 26, 2010. Nicknamed “Lady T” and often referred to as the Ivory Queen of Soul, Teena Marie produced, sang and arranged virtually all of her songs since her 1980 album debut Irons in the Fire. Her final album, Congo Square, was a jazz-influenced collection of personal songs released in 2009.
Performers at this year’s show include The Whispers, Charlie Wilson, and Keith Sweat. For more on this story, go here.
For more information, please contact Kara Cermanski at (609) 348-7021 or e-mail kcermanski@accenter.com.
Tags: Boardwalk Hall, Charlie Wilson, Keith Sweat, Teena Marie, The Whispers
January 20th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Nice to know there will be this tribute in memory of Teena Marie; one error, though: “Irons in the Fire” was not her debut CD; that distinction goes to “Wild and Peaceful,” which was released in 1979 on Motown Records.